Tax Expenditures
Christopher Faricy
This dataset is based on the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation’s annual five-year estimates of federal tax expenditures informally referred to as ‘Bluebooks’ and is compiled annually by Christopher Faricy.
May 19, 2025
Supreme Court Cases
Bird, Christine, Michelle Whyman, Bryan D. Jones, Frank R. Baumgartner, Sean M. Theriault, Derek A. Epp
The Supreme Court dataset contains information on each case on the Courts docket, and is the only publicly available dataset to examine the Courts agenda from a policy perspective.
June 3, 2025
TV News Policy Agenda Data
Joe Uscinski
This dataset, by Joe Uscinski, includes over 65,000 TV News stories from the Vanderbilt archive (1968-2010), coded according to an adjusted version of the Policy Agendas major topic coding scheme.
May 14, 2025
New York Times Index Weights
This dataset provides information on the number of pages in the index and an estimate of the number of articles per page for each of the years included in our dataset.
April 2, 2025
New York Times Index
A systematic random sample, this dataset includes the first entry on every odd-numbered page of The New York Times Index
April 1, 2025
New York Times Front Page
Amber Boydstun
This dataset includes every front page story from The New York Times from 1996-2006.
April 1, 2025
Congressional Quarterly Almanac
This dataset contains information from all articles in the main chapters of the CQ Almanac.
April 1, 2025
Roll Call Votes
Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet
This dataset includes Congressional roll call votes categorized according to the Policy Agendas Project topic system.
June 3, 2025
Reeher Weighs In on Redistricting Arms Race in The Hill
“Redrawing districts in between the decennial censuses will just lead to a redistricting arms race,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science. “What both parties are doing is bad for the political system generally, the state legislatures and the Congress, and the citizens.”
August 11, 2025
State of the Union Speeches
Jones, Bryan D., Frank R. Baumgartner, Sean M. Theriault, Derek A. Epp, Rebecca Eissler, Cheyenne Lee, Miranda E. Sullivan
This dataset provides information on each quasi-statement in Presidential State of the Union speeches. Each quasi-statement is coded according to our system of policy content categories and other variables.
May 27, 2025
Policy Moods
Stimson, James A., and K. Elizabeth Coggins
The policy specific moods data set was created to supplement the traditional Global Mood measure in an effort to provide scholars with as many policy specific mood measures as possible.
May 20, 2025
Master Codebook Citation
For the master topic codebook, please use the following citation:
Jones, Bryan D., Frank R. Baumgartner, Sean M. Theriault, Derek A. Epp, Cheyenne Lee, Miranda E. Sullivan. 2023. Policy Agendas Project: Codebook.